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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22960579\/colors-of-climate-nicole-kelner-watercolors-diy<\/a>
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Sometimes, Nicole Kelner\u2019s watercolor art demonstrates the shrinking population of monarch butterflies, or calls attention to the benefits associated with certain kinds of green energy, like ground-source heat pumps. Other times, it reflects jarring data about the warming of the Earth. But every stroke Kelner makes with her razor-thin paintbrush represents a bigger picture than what\u2019s on the page. <\/p>\n

\u201cI care a lot about climate change and have been trying to find a way of how I can be the most useful in this space without having a technical background,\u201d Kelner said in an interview with The Verge<\/em>. \u201cI found this to be a really interesting way of basically making my own flashcards every day and learning by physically doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kelner\u2019s day job is operations manager at the Dashboard.Earth app, a platform for those interested in combating climate change. It\u2019s geared toward directing users to take meaningful actions against climate change in Los Angeles County \u2014 and eventually, beyond. In addition to aggregating news stories about the environment, it also shows the environmental impact other users have made in the community, like reducing the water they use at home or planting a tree. <\/p>\n

At the start of 2022, Kelner decided she wanted to create a new piece of watercolor art every day for the next 100 days, mimicking the \u201c100 days\u201d challenges that artists and writers often commit to on social media, digitally binding them to their promise of exercising creativity on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t originally set out to make art about climate change, but after her piece showing kelp\u2019s impact in reducing carbon dioxide got such a positive response on Twitter<\/a>, she decided to focus solely on climate change art. Her work at Dashboard.Earth is all about taking smaller steps to a greater goal, something that Kelner\u2019s watercolors immediately reflect.<\/p>\n

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Kelner says she always had an affinity for art. During college, she dabbled in sewing and selling a handy solution that combines a phone case with a purse, culminating into a brand she called SmartPurse<\/a> \u2014 a creation that nearly landed her on the show Shark Tank<\/em>. She later picked up watercolor painting after taking a class while traveling in Malaysia, a skill she has now translated into her climate-focused art.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Kelner co-founded an after-school program called The Coding Space<\/a> \u2014 which taught around 2,500 kids how to code at the time \u2014 and helped bring that startup to acquisition in 2019. She says her involvement helped her learn how to break down complex information into \u201cbite-sized\u201d chunks. She worked as a consultant at the Biomimicry Institute in 2019, and later as chief of staff at Climate Finance Solutions in 2020, and came to Dashboard.Earth in 2021. <\/p>\n

One of Kelner\u2019s most popular climate pieces is a set of vertical lines transitioning from a cloudy blue to a vibrant red, which Kelner modeled after data<\/a> representing the rise in Earth\u2019s temperature between 1850 and 2021. When you figure out that essential piece of context, the artwork transforms from a soothing, abstract painting to something much more meaningful \u2014 and devastating.<\/p>\n

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